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How music works

Paperback • 2020 • English • 1. edition

How music works

By David Byrne

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About the book

How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming powe...Show more

Theory of music and musicology

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ISBN

9780857862525

Publisher

Canongate

Published year

2020

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

How music works

Format

Paperback

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